Haiti

Haiti at a standstill as street clashes continue over demands for president’s ouster (10.06.2019)

Tensions escalated on the streets of Haiti’s capital as protesters on Monday again barricaded roads with burning tires, set a Port-au-Prince broadcast station’s vehicles ablaze, and chased down a presidential police backup unit they accused of firing on a crowd and killing a motorcycle driver.

Row with US energy trader worsens Haiti's fuel crisis (15.04.2019)

A dispute between Haiti and a U.S. energy trading firm is leading to long blackouts and fuel shortages in the Caribbean nation, feeding anger at President Jovenel Moise’s government following the collapse of a supply deal with Venezuela last year.

MINUJUSTH to be replaced by non-peacekeeping UN presence in October (12.04.2019)

Haiti stands ‘at the crossroads’ between peacekeeping, development – Bachelet urges strengthened ‘human rights protection’ (03.04.2019)

With the end of the UN’s peacekeeping presence in Haiti in sight, the UN’s human rights chief told the Security Council on Wednesday that the country now stands “at the crossroads between peacekeeping and development”, urging all concerned parties to continue building on progress made, or “risk...

Report of the Secretary-General on the UN Mission for Justice Support in Haiti (01.03.2019)

Haiti paralyzed by fifth day of protests against president (11.02.2019)

Protesters are demanding President Jovenel Moise resign for failing to tackle corruption. The rallies have become increasingly violent in recent days.

Mission in transition: planning for the end of UN peacekeeping in Haiti (26.12.2018)

The process of reconfiguring, closing, and handing over responsibilities to a UN country team or host-state institutions is a crucial—and challenging—part of the life cycle of a UN peacekeeping mission. … This paper focuses on the two most recent peacekeeping transitions in Haiti: one from the UN...